GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disport | sport |
| arcade | a long arched building or gallery |
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| hardy | bold |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| indubitable | too evident to be doubted : unquestionable |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |